Today I'd like to tell you a story about war, and about the things we do to save other people. I know most of us are sick to death of he...

Content warning: if you avoid discussions of Christianity, hypocrisy or any combination thereof, give this one a pass. Right, you've bee...

  Sooner or later your kid will ask about Santa Claus, and it's better to plan how you'll respond before that day comes.

(Trying not to go full ranty-pants here, but We Gotta Talk About This, right? Right.) Some of you may have seen this before. It's a bi...

I posted this to Facebook earlier, but it's been wonky all day, so. Mom called me this morning. I guess a while ago she hurt her right...

[First published 2005] OMETIMES the Internet provides a kind of permeable window into other lives. I don't know how accurate that w...

No, I'm not. There was a time, not very long ago, when I readily would have answered, "Yes, I am." Regular readers may remem...

[FYI for anyone who's interested: CM and I intend to keep making videos and posting them on the weekends, but I'm not going to annou...

[NOTE: The following post encapsulates a non-drinker's thoughts about partying. Since I've never had a drink, taken a party drug, or...

Something new went into the Blessing Journal a few days ago. Here's what I wrote: You have a home. It isn't something you think...

The Bible records that the ancient Israelites would sometimes turn away from their God and engage in various forms of idolatry. One partic...

ID you know that certain types of rituals -- that is, certain deliberately-created activities repeated on a regular basis -- can foster gr...

About this time two years ago, I wrote a little something about talents and mites . This morning, the idea popped into my head that I ought ...

David is my cousin, but like all my cousins on my mom's side of the family, he's nearly as close as my siblings. I've written ab...

ATELY I've been carrying a lot of stress and anxiety, for a number of reasons that don't need to be articulated here. It's not...

Would you like to know more? Though I don't talk constantly about my faith on this blog, it is a vital part of who I am. And you may...

You know the multiverse theory , right? The idea that we live in just one of a cloud of potential alternate universes or dimensions, each op...

[For those of you who are unfamiliar with the way Mormon church services work, a word of introduction. Latter-day Saint congregations do not...

Mom's back in the hospital today. Dialysis hasn't been going well and she's retaining water, had coma-level blood sugars, low he...

My mom is in the hospital tonight. Her health has gone rapidly downhill over the last few days, and when she was admitted this evening her k...